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. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, elytra with yellowish-brown with dark brown to reddish brown spots, antenna yellow, base and margins of pronotum lighter; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some short, white setae on elytra.
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Elytra elongate, widest at posterior fifth, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, adpressed white setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose (but setae in
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abraded); apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).
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<paragraph id="266036FCFFF6FFE2FF135A63FC0EFC5E" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,1905]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.42. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being a quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and moderately shiny, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with moderately dense, long and short setae.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="266036FCFFF6FFE2FF135A8BFDE1FA72" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,1905]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.4, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few single, fine setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, without wrinkles, glabrous; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally impunctate. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a few indistinct dorsal punctures, a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="266036FCFFF6FFE2FF135CB7FD33FA56" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,1905]" box="[199,678,1483,1509]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
Aedeagus:
<figureCitation id="BEE42A79FFF6FFE2FE905CB7FE5FFA56" box="[324,458,1483,1509]" captionStart="FIGURE 19" captionStartId="71.[152,255,1409,1433]" captionTargetBox="[160,1420,211,1367]" captionTargetId="figure-20@71.[151,1436,181,1385]" captionTargetPageId="71" captionText="FIGURE 19. AD: Serica smetanai Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species (holotype); EH: S. pseudogracilipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species (holotype). A, E: Aedeagus, left side lateral view; C, G: Aedeagus, right side lateral view; B, F: Parameres, dorsal view; D, H: Habitus (not to scale). Scale: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7073809" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7073809/files/figure.png" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Fig. 19EG</figureCitation>
. Habitus:
<figureCitation id="BEE42A79FFF6FFE2FDEF5CB7FD37FA56" box="[571,674,1483,1509]" captionStart="FIGURE 19" captionStartId="71.[152,255,1409,1433]" captionTargetBox="[160,1420,211,1367]" captionTargetId="figure-20@71.[151,1436,181,1385]" captionTargetPageId="71" captionText="FIGURE 19. AD: Serica smetanai Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species (holotype); EH: S. pseudogracilipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species (holotype). A, E: Aedeagus, left side lateral view; C, G: Aedeagus, right side lateral view; B, F: Parameres, dorsal view; D, H: Habitus (not to scale). Scale: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7073809" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7073809/files/figure.png" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Fig. 19H</figureCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6EC56577FFF6FFE2FF135C92FA84F92A" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="266036FCFFF6FFE2FF135C92FA84F92A" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,1905]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FF135C92FED7F9BB" bold="true" box="[199,322,1518,1544]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FE9C5C93FCCDF9BA" authority="Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu" authorityName="Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2022" box="[328,856,1519,1545]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pseudogracilipes" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FE9C5C93FDC3F9BA" box="[328,598,1519,1545]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Serica pseudogracilipes</emphasis>
Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicNameLabel id="0F985795FFF6FFE2FCB75C93FC7FF9BA" box="[867,1002,1519,1545]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" rank="species">new species</taxonomicNameLabel>
is in shape of aedeagus very similar to
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FF435F6FFE66F99E" authority="Sawada, 1939" authorityName="Sawada" authorityYear="1939" box="[151,499,1555,1581]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="niitakana">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FF435F6FFEDAF99E" box="[151,335,1555,1581]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Serica niitakana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="424E4B0DFFF6FFE2FE805F6FFE66F99E" author="Sawada, H." box="[340,499,1555,1581]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" pagination="48 - 51" refId="ref76129" refString="Sawada, H. (1939) Some Lamellicorn beetles of the subfamily Sericinae. Nippon no Konchu, 3, 48 - 51." type="journal article" year="1939">Sawada, 1939</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FE295F6FFD68F99E" authority="Kobayashi, 1993" authorityName="Kobayashi" authorityYear="1993" box="[509,765,1555,1581]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yui">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FE295F6FFDAFF99F" box="[509,570,1555,1581]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">S. yui</emphasis>
Kobayashi, 1993
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FCE55F6FFBF0F99E" authority="Nomura, 1974" authorityName="Nomura" authorityYear="1974" box="[817,1125,1555,1581]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gracilipes">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FCE55F6FFC29F99E" box="[817,956,1555,1581]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">S. gracilipes</emphasis>
Nomura, 1974
</taxonomicName>
, both occurrring also in
<collectingCountry id="5EC8766CFFF6FFE2FAA45F6FFF5CF9E2" name="Taiwan" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Taiwan</collectingCountry>
.
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FF005F4BFE77F9E2" authorityName="Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2022" box="[212,482,1591,1617]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pseudogracilipes">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FF005F4BFE77F9E2" box="[212,482,1591,1617]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Serica pseudogracilipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from the latter two by the finer parameres including their dorsal lobes (dorsal view), which are at middle stronger bent than in
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FD625F27FCB2F9C7" authorityName="Kobayashi" authorityYear="1993" box="[694,807,1627,1653]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yui">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FD625F27FCB2F9C7" box="[694,807,1627,1653]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Serica yui</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but not as strong as in
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FBFD5F27FB20F9C6" authorityName="Nomura" authorityYear="1974" box="[1065,1205,1627,1653]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gracilipes">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FBFD5F27FB20F9C6" box="[1065,1205,1627,1653]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">S. gracilipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(lateral view). From
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FF435F03FEC5F92A" authorityName="Sawada" authorityYear="1939" box="[151,336,1663,1689]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="niitakana">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FF435F03FEC5F92A" box="[151,336,1663,1689]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Serica niitakana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
it differs by the wider aedeagus and the strongly curved parameres (both dosal view).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6EC56577FFF6FFE2FF135FDFFED5F8B6" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="266036FCFFF6FFE2FF135FDFFED5F8B6" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,1905]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FF135FDFFEDBF90E" bold="true" box="[199,334,1699,1725]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name of new species is derived from the combined Greek prefix
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FBB55FDFFB2FF90E" box="[1121,1210,1699,1725]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">pseudo-</emphasis>
(substantive in singular genitive case) and the species name
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FDBB5FBBFD4AF952" authorityName="Nomura" authorityYear="1974" box="[623,735,1735,1761]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gracilipes">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FDBB5FBBFD4AF952" box="[623,735,1735,1761]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">gracilipes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, with references to the similarity of the species to
<taxonomicName id="E1DF4D7FFFF6FFE2FAC55FBBFEA9F8B6" authority="Nomura, 1974" authorityName="Nomura" authorityYear="1974" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gracilipes">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FAC55FBBFA09F952" box="[1297,1436,1735,1761]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">S. gracilipes</emphasis>
Nomura, 1974
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6EC56577FFF6FFE2FF135E72FE0AF8C2" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" type="description">
<paragraph id="266036FCFFF6FFE2FF135E72FE0AF8C2" blockId="72.[151,1437,151,1905]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="14ABEAEEFFF6FFE2FF135E72FEAAF89B" bold="true" box="[199,319,1806,1832]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Variation.</emphasis>
Length: 9.0
<quantity id="E1279B19FFF6FFE2FE005E72FDBEF89A" box="[468,555,1806,1833]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.5" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" unit="mm" value="9.5">9.5 mm</quantity>
, length of elytra:
<quantity id="E1279B19FFF6FFE2FD395E73FCE0F89A" box="[749,885,1807,1833]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.65" metricValueMax="6.9" metricValueMin="6.4" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" unit="mm" value="6.65" valueMax="6.9" valueMin="6.4">6.46.9 mm</quantity>
, width: 4.55.0 mm. Female: antennal club short, as long as remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium weakly convex; eyes smaller than in male, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.48.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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